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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  my new favorite spot to study for future years. Applying randomly to a ... The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate ... 's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  consider cross-registering for a Harvard class. The commute is only ten ... for the more ambitious (which makes for a total of 4,900+ options). You ... education. It’s great, really. (For a different blogger perspective, here’s a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP ... then waiting 40-55 minutes for your final product. It is about knowing a ... . Oh, boy did I learn about the importance of sleep. For me at least

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... that out of the way, I'm writing this entry for a few reasons. One ... something like a "stay tuned for my next blog entry, after graduation!" which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  -100 like a gazelle in a WWF mask). Fortunately for me, he was already two ... TA. The same goes for professors. I mean, sure. There's a certain ... . So I look for a couple things when I'm TA-hunting (not in a Elmer Fudd

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity ... is also a good time to explore who you really are. For several weeks ... , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  branches off in the end at Building 8. It’s a pretty important hallway for ... I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... like. It’s mostly a long strip: There’s west campus on the west, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  growth for me, and a big part of my goal in becoming a math major. My ... a translator between fields, to be an avenue for the ideas, tools, and ... one of my hopes for my technical education at MIT: as a 6-7/18 major, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... , the glorious time of year when classes aren't as big of a deal for most ... ability that did extra damage. Then spell packets for other spells. A spell

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  [annotation note="Google Can Children Learn Creativity from a Social Robot? for ... the angle I was working on for quite a while. I still have an entire ... you were using a robot[/caption] So now I had a cool angle for my paper

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... ever a Bad Idea. Bad Ideas is a weekend festival thrown by East Campus for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  importance, for the sake of your safety. 3. If you want a relationship, you ... post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... let awkwardness be a barrier to being aware or being informed, for our

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  want to have a plan for when you'll finish each part of the GIRs ... that you are. As a proxy for having friends, there are the subject ... ; for example, register for eight classes and drop four of them. As a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  Jeff ‘18: you're great roommates. To be fair, I’ve had this coming for a ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I ... Decisions are coming. That means a lot. It means that several

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  .) Here’s an equally important message: I saw the “perfect match” in a bunch ... answer you’re looking for. I wish we could just give you a perfect black ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  given it a second (or first) thought, except for a conversation I had with ... . That's actually point number 1: This isn't a very important question to ... us in for tea while we waited for a tow truck to come! Anecdote 6: One

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  open, I lay on my bed—a strange feeling emerged. I didn't care for work ... drinking, as he “recognized it as a pattern—a pattern for depression.” “So ... unfortunate has happened to them, and they just need to be cared for a little

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  puzzlehunt community, and what expectations I have for others, using a gift ... , and solving them represents fixing them. For the 2021 Hunt, there's a ... but feel that the 2023 Hunt is a narrative culmination for puzzlehunts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with ... ~75% of submissions. ‘Twas a bummer, but I was grateful for having ... publicly talking about the contents of the paper for a while. It’s kind of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021